GSC loc. C-90903 - Spatsizi River (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.5° N, 128.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 71.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Freboldi ammonoid zone, Cold Fish Volcanics Formation (Hazelton Group), Ibex (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Freboldi Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• The Hazelton Group is a thick assemblage of basaltic to rhyolitic volcanics, sedimentary rocks, their tuffaceous equivalents, and minor limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: mechanical,

• H. W. Tipper, 1981.

Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1998. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 21:57-150 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53183: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Dubariceras silviesi Hertlein 1925 ammonite
Tipper 1995
Dubariceras freboldi Dommergues et al. 1984 ammonite
Dommergues et al., 1984
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillaria pallas Leanza 1942 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Radulonectites sosneadoensis Weaver 1931 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Limea (Pseudolimea) duplicata" = Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam